David Tulga
Senior Software Engineer at Moonlite AI
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Tulga is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, distributed data systems and AI tooling across startups and research labs. He currently develops Python-based Enterprise AI solutions at Moonlite AI and previously led the design and implementation of DataChain’s parallel and distributed processing framework at Iterative, integrating OLTP/OLAP systems like PostgreSQL and ClickHouse for LLM training workflows. His background spans genomics and lab informatics—designing LIMS, sequencing pipelines, and cloud infrastructure at Asimov and Freenome—which gives him a strong data-first perspective on ML infrastructure. He has deep systems experience from Google and Mixpanel in backend optimization and containerized cloud deployments, plus a history of building cross-platform C++ libraries as the founder of TransReality Technology. Comfortable across Python, C++, Go, and front-end React, he combines hands-on engineering with cost, performance, and security optimizations for Kubernetes-based workloads. Based in Sacramento, he maintains open-source work and a project portfolio on his website and GitHub, reflecting a blend of research-driven problem solving and production-grade engineering.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Arts (M.A.) Systems Biology, Master of Arts (M.A.) Systems Biology at Harvard University
English
Github Skills (16)
data-wrangling10
machine-learning10
data-analytics10
multimodal10
ai10
llm10
mlops9
kubernetes-job6
job-system5
resource-management4
kubernetes2
kind2
iron1
packaging1
msr1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dtulga/restomatic
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
freenome/k8s-job-cleaner
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Kubernetes Job Cleaner
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
jobkuberneteskubernetes-job
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